oldster

[ohld-ster]

old·ster

[ohld-ster]
noun
1.
an old or elderly person.
2.
(in the British navy) a midshipman of four years' standing.

Origin:
1810–20; old + -ster, modeled on youngster
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Oldster is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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oldster (ˈəʊldstə)
 
n
1.  informal an older person
2.  (Brit) navy a person who has been a midshipman for four years

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